The Anglican communion’s newly minted Archbishop of Wales, the Rev. Cherry Vann, is lamenting that people are leaving the church on account of her lesbianism, describing their actions as “very hurtful.”
Vann is the first woman to be elected as an Anglican archbishop in the United Kingdom and the first openly gay bishop serving as primate in the Anglican Communion. Notably, Vann is not ‘married’ to her lesbian girlfriend, Wendy Diamond, but has been living in a “same-sex civil partnership” for years. She told BBC News:
“There are still patches all over the place where people continue to struggle with women in leadership and I have to respect that. The Church in Wales is working hard to welcome LGBT+ people, but also I respect that there are people in the Church in Wales who find that really difficult.
Some, sadly, have felt the need to leave and I take that very seriously.”
Vann further revealed that many people have been “quite hostile” regarding her election.
“It can be very hurtful. It’s hard to hear some of the things that people say, but I think it’s important that there is the space for them to say that.
“I don’t want people to feel shut down or silenced just because I hold a different view, but it does nevertheless hurt because it feels like an attack on who I am and who God has made me to be.
We have to find a way as a Church to respect one another’s views and find a commonality in our faith in Christ, despite our differences”.
Notably, her election was the breaking point for millions of conservative Anglicans, after the The Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, announced that it was officially severing all ties with the Church in Wales on account of her election.
The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Rev. Henry Ndukuba, described her appointment as an “abomination before God” and insisted “We do not recognize the so-called Archbishop of Wales and cannot share communion with a church that has departed from the teachings of the Bible.”
3 responses to “‘Very Hurtful.’ First lesbian Archbishop Laments That People Are Leaving The Church Over Her Sexuality”
“find a commonality in our faith in Christ”
Faith is knowing He will do what He said that He will do. It is knowing that He will judge as He said that He will judge. For example Rev. 21:8, and Rev. 22:15-16. Faith is to believe and know that He is telling the truth. Faith is to know that He is who He says He is, all the way back to the creation of the world.
She has no faith. She calls Him a liar. She worships the creation rather than the Creator. And she tries to emotionally manipulate others into endorsing and justifying sin, which is itself an abomination. Abominable sin, she says, is just a mere “difference.” She doesn’t care how much harm and pain she is doing to others, and to the Lord’s church, now and for eternity. She only cares about herself in the here and now. Because she doesn’t first love the Lord, she cannot begin to love others. She torments the soul of many, inflicting great harm that is far worse than the bit of pain she feels. (2 Peter 2:7-8)
Wait till she hears the words “depart from me, you worker of iniquity”, once and for all, the absolute final word for all of eternity, the ultimate rejection of Almighty God, infinitely worse than the rejection of any or all of mankind.
She’ll never find commonality with those who truly have faith in Christ, because she herself has no such faith …
There cannot be, and never will be, any commonality or agreement with truly born again Christians, when her false christ is entirely different from the real Jesus. Her false christ is herself. That’s who she believes makes the rules everyone else should follow. That’s who she wants everyone else to bow down and worship. She’s a good example of why women should not lead, and merely being in the position she is now in, also an example of how wicked men failed to submit to and honor the Lord, who also were their own false christs.
I don’t care what color you are, nationality, culture, and so on. If it’s not sinful, and you follow the real Jesus, then I have everything in common with you. But if you follow a false Jesus, then I would have nothing in common with you, even if you were exactly like me in every other way.
One cannot even believe two different conflicting things at once, much less the forty zillion things the pluralists and relativists want. That doesn’t work. It demands suppression of the truth, and only creates conflict and chaos, leading to total anarchy. Nobody gets to make up their own version of “my Jesus” and “my truth”, apart from and in conflict with scripture, and then demand everyone else bow down to that false image.
If she ever repents and turns to the real Jesus, then she’ll have some commonality with born again Christians. Until then, it aint happening.
Wel I agree that this gal is an “abomination before God”. Every part of her life is anti-Scriptual. Her position in the Anglican Communion should be limited as an attendee and be prohibited from partaking of the Eucharist.